Strategic Buyer - Analyzer System Integration (ASI)

Key Responsibilities

• Partner closely with the ASI Sales and Engineering teams during the customer bidding and proposal phase.
• Identify key buy-out materials, third-party instrumentation, and complex engineered sub-assemblies required for customer proposals.
• Solicit, review, and evaluate competitive, up-to-date vendor quotations to ensure accurate, winning proposal pricing and commercial alignment.
• Own the commercial procurement cycle once project purchase orders are awarded by the customer.
• Issue updated RFQs, conduct multi-round negotiations, and structure complex commercial terms (including milestone payment schedules, Liquidated Damages, and warranties).
• Drive cost-reduction targets, track cost avoidance, and report overall savings per project.
• Directly manage high-complexity, high-risk purchase orders and agreements end-to-end, maintaining high standards for contractual protection.
• Actively scout, evaluate, and onboard new vendors to build a robust, cost-effective supplier base for ASI equipment and integration services.
• Manage and optimize incumbent vendor performance by tracking key metrics (on-time delivery, quality, cost competitiveness) and continuously challenging suppliers to improve pricing, lead times, and commercial terms.
• Build strong supplier relationships to ensure priority capacity allocation and execution support during critical project schedules.
• Maintain targeted oversight of critical-path purchase orders to ensure contract compliance, protect project timelines and delivery schedules.
• Drive targeted vendor expediting on complex or long-lead equipment to proactively mitigate schedule delays.
• Ensure strict adherence to internal enterprise procurement policies, audit requirements, and corporate governance standards across all purchasing transactions.
• Maintain complete and compliant procurement files, contracts, and supplier records within global enterprise platform (ERP).

About The Team

Our 18,000 employees work in over 60 countries with one corporate mission, to "co-innovate tomorrow". We are looking for dynamic colleagues who share our passion for technology and care for our planet. In return, we offer you great career opportunities to grow yourself in a truly global culture where respect, value creation, collaboration, integrity, and gratitude are highly valued and exhibited in everything we do.